Michael Wilson
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For the first few hours of the day, Tsubaki ran around, scouting the area and the nearby survivors. Unfortunately, there was no way to specifically identify the differences between a normal survivor and a Stalker, so she had to treat all of them as if they were Stalkers. She watched parties walking through the cities from distant rooftops, using a pair of binoculars that she looted from an abandoned sporting goods store. Whenever she found a small group of people, she would begin tracking them. Naturally,…-
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While Tsubaki was working on her latest trial, Dana was hard at work on her own project. Given the events of the most recent invasion, there was a serious need to increase both her own power and that of the world around her. For her own power, that was easy, and she already had her familiars working on that. The hard part was how to increase the overall level of the world. “I can’t create a system that will mass produce legends, since every legend has to be unique to its wielder.” Dana muttered to…
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Once Tsubaki was able to move, she rolled herself off of the now-ruined mattress that she had landed in, and worked on disentangling herself from the net. Although she had been confident in her escape plan, this was still her first time properly executing it. Once she had untangled the net and freed herself, she held her bad arm steady and turned to look at the broken remains of her gun. “If I had a good forge, I might be able to fix that, but…” She let her words trail off, seeing the shattered…
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“Cici, can you give me a status report on C-2?” I asked, sitting in the lounge area of Olympus. It had been a week now since the game had been released. Aside from Balu briefly visiting to spend some time with Bihena, there hadn’t been anything noteworthy. So, I decided to check to see how everyone was adapting to the new game. “Of course, sir.” Cici’s voice spoke out from the speakers in Olympus. “At this point, roughly sixty percent of the population in the primary planets have experienced…
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Because of her arrangement with her sister, Maya worked another shift that night, taking over for the time when Michelle would have normally worked. As she had expected, there was another missing person’s poster up on the wall near their house after she had returned home earlier in the day. At this point, Maya was certain that the beast that she had to track down was made more obvious due to the simplicity of her request. She wasn’t about to look a gift horse in the mouth, though. After Michelle took…
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Maya walked around Ashtanu after having gotten off work when her father came to the store. There was a bright smile on her face, enjoying the new, simple life of living with a genuine family. However… in the back of her mind, Maya knew that there was something else that she had to be doing. Even though Maya was enjoying this family life, she couldn’t forget why she was in this simulation. Not because she wanted to clear it and leave, but rather just the opposite. As long as the unknown void threat was…
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When Darkflame Technologies announced the release of a new Keeper-sponsored game, the reception was… admittedly rather mixed. There had never been a game sponsored by the Keeper that wasn’t a massive, online game meant to be played by the entire universe together. Some even braved the void to try to get a sneak peak at the new world, only to find a nonsensical maze of offices. Without being able to properly see the game’s content, they were kicked out of the game by the entity managing it. They were…
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“Alright, Cici, how exactly does C-2 create so many worlds?” I asked, opening my system menu. Ashley had already delivered the software to her incarnation, and was in the process of ‘installing’ the game. This meant that it had appeared within the void, giving me the chance to see what it was like. To my surprise, this world was “The process is rather simple, sir.” Cici explained with a smile. “Whenever it is time to initiate a new world, a version of myself will take the people who are…
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It didn’t take long for me to connect with Balu, who revealed that she was on the offensive this time, so she didn’t really have anything to worry about. However, when I told her the reason behind my call, she said that she had to check some things and would get back to me. Whatever she was doing, it took her more than half an hour to complete, before I received another request for a communication. Naturally, I agreed, sending her the invite. At the same time, I called the members of the Greater…
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Dana quickly arrived within her shadow world, standing opposite the two familiar clones of herself. She closed her eyes, sensing their states, and let out a brief sigh. Unfortunately, they were unable to remain within the world while Dana herself was in the Admin Room. Otherwise, she would have kept them active to recover more. As it stood, neither they nor herself were fully recovered from the big fight against the ‘void god’. “At least we’re not going to need to fight urgently, so it should just…
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